Monday, November 10, 2008  5:00 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Janikies Auditorium, Bryant University Campus, Smithfield

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"Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st Century and we all need to wake up about it.  FLOW opens our eyes about the greatest threat  of our time - the global water crisis.  It is a compelling and passionate film. Its engaging narrative will grip the viewer."
                                                          - Robert Redford

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"

Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.

"FLOW exposes the efforts of a few rapacious corporations to exploit the world's water for their own profit. It illuminates the responsibility we who consume that water at $9 a gallon bare for the devastation that ensues. It is a clarion call to action to all those who care about the future we leave our children, to oppose and end this usurpation of our planet's life blood. It is brilliant and not to be missed."
                                                                                                - James Cromwell

 Panel discussion immediately after the film on water and Rhode Island.

Panelists include:

Cynthia Giles
Director, Rhode Island Advocacy Center
Conservation Law Foundation

Dr. Joseph A. Ilacqua
Professor of Economics, Bryant University

Jan Reitsma
Executive Director
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor

Kathleen Crawley
Interim General Manager, RI Water Resources Board

Kenneth D. Ayars
Chief , Agriculture and Resource Marketing
Department of Environmental Management

Gaytha A. Langlois
Professor, Department of Science and Technology
Bryant University

Eugenia Marks
Senior Director of Policy, Audubon Society of Rhode Island

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